Sittidech Surasri

The following lists are the diseases that have been declared as the PHEIC:
1. H1N1 (or swine flu)
2. Polio
3. Ebola
4. Zika virus
5. Kivu Ebola
6. COVID-19 (ongoing)
Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns? refer to the International Health Regulation (IHR), these outbreaks are determined to constitute a public health risk to other States…[Read more]

The air pollution has very negative effects on nature and on human health. Those long-term and medium-term effects have become problems; The following examples are lists of the main negative effects that air pollution is causing worldwide:
– Global Warming.
– Climate Change.
– Acid Rain.
– Smog effect.
– Deterioration of fields.
– Extinction of…[Read more]

EXELLENT!!! I totally agree with comments, and we would consider about overestimated cases report as well.

Inaccurate and discrepancy of data will lead to as followings;
• Inaccurate data; PPV
• Consistency of data incomplete.
• Population/ Area/ Location; awareness of people
• Prophylaxis treatment and drug regimen (inappropriate/unnecessary/drug side effective)
• Setting the case monitoring program (too low/ too high)
• Making the decision of…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing the idea of the uses of IT in outbreak investigation. I do agree that IT help to reduce the paper work as your example. To add, barcoding, mobile entering data, and real-time reporting system are the example of this one as well.

And I really like that AI and Could computing will popular useful in the future.

The followings are the step of outbreak investigation, and IT will be able to assist the investigation:
1. Preparation for the investigation;
– IT system can facilitate the team to meeting for discussion and brainstorm the investigation plan; about case definition, criteria, exposed area and data collection and analysis
2. Verifying the…[Read more]

Zika, I would classify as Highly Important because:
– Zika is spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). These mosquitoes bite during the day and night.
– Severity and transmission: Zika can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Infection during pregnancy can cause certain birth…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your though, especially to add the Zoonotic surveillance. This would help us to have the integrated information/data between human and animal, and have a big picture for control the transition.

In my opinion, I would like to add the surveillance system for COVID-19 as follow.

Thailand has guidelines for surveillance and investigation system of the COVID-19. I think they have many existing types or activities of surveillance system;
– Activity: passive and active surveillances
o Passive surveillance: patient comes to see the doctor,…[Read more]

According to table 7: Uses of public health surveillance of the paper by Choi BC, in my opinion think that the example of the surveillance system that Thailand has very effective performance was the emerging disease surveillance system; COVID-19, Malaria, Dengue, Influenza. I think that Thailand has all good 6 functions.
Thailand is one of the…[Read more]

These two video clips (that share on the line group) are very good to review and help us to more clear and understand about motivation. I do agree with all the comments. For myself, I think that many of us normally have the reason or the goal to do something. The simple example of the motivate that we can see from the real life is that to get…[Read more]

Thank you for your summarize, I was one of the team member that discuss about the democratic style. I would like to add about this topic that this this style is extremely powerful when we need to make big decisions, planning fir future strategies that may impact the future of the business or project. At my office, we use this kind of leadership in…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your story, and I like the word that what goes around comes around. I can do everything well if I do my best. Leaving from comfort zone is a challenge, and should try and you might see new thing that you are looking for.

I think many people have many chances or stories to leave from their comfort zone which could be change for the new chapter of life or challenging with a new thing to answer their goal. For myself, I decided to leave from my comfort zone about 6 months ago. My comfort zone was the daily work even it was not the routine, but most of my…[Read more]

I do agree with your comment that the important one of the listening is listen to people/person who are you talking to you.

Thank you for sharing a good Video.

I would recommend to listen to ourselves. If we want to listen to other side, we have to learn to listen to ourselves first because there is so much going on our minds, so much noise and distraction that we doin’t have the mental and emotional space to be able truly listen to the other side.

From the TED talk, I have learnt that there are at l…[Read more]

Thank you for your comment. I would like to you to think about the Thailand Regulation on the protection of personal data (2019) and suggest the researchers team should submit their protocol to the Ethic Committee for review and approval.

Per this scenario, I will not give data to them (Western researcher) without approval and permission, and will follow the policy of organization and follow the the General Principles of Informatics Ethics as below lists:
– Keeping health records/data safe and secure
– Provide access to the record by authorized personnel
– Maintaining the…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your experience in your organization in implementing a new system. I can see that activities such as training, coaching and communication were used during implementation as describe in the ADKAR model.